The Secrets of Cola Soda Ingredients
- Time To Break Open the Vault!!!!

Coca-Cola and Pepsi Soda Formulas

After years of research, KukaXoco has assembled a variety of sets
of data that together provide the complete formulations for Coca-Cola
and Pepsi cola sodas, sugary and diet - including the formula for
the cola soda flavor in Coca-Cola's vaunted vault in Atlanta. Along
with KukaXoco's coca-leaf data, all of this information will help
usher in a new era of healthier, better tasting cola sodas!

Most details on these formulas, their originating documents, plus
200 years of cola soda chemistry, is available in our book,
"Opening the Vault", and for industry professionals, our "Encyclopedia
of Cola Soda Chemistry", available at the Our Products page.

In 1906, A. Emil Hiss published a book, "The Standard Manual of Soda and
Other Beverages". On page 76, he listed the following formula for ELIXIR
OF KOLA.

Ingredient

Quantity

Fluid extract of kola

1.0 fluid ounce

Fluid extract of coca

1.5 fluid ounces

Fluid extract of celery seed

1.0 fluid ounce

Tincture of sweet orange peel

0.5 fluid ounce

Oil of orange

2 fluid drams(1/8 ounce)

Oil of cinnamon

8 drops

Oil of cloves

8 drops

Alcohol, denatured alcohol

to make 16 fluid ounces

Purified talcum

1 av. ounce

About 100 years ago, Pepsi published the following data about its
cola soda formula.

Ingredient

Quantity

Sugar - Standard Confectioners A

7,200 pounds

Water

10,000 pounds (1200 gallons)

Caramel - burnt sugar color

12 gallons

Phosphoric avid (S.G. 1.750)

58 pounds

Lime juice

12 gallons

Alcohol

0.5 gallons

Flavorings

Oil Lemon

6 fluid ounces

Oil Orange

5 fluid ounces

Oil Cinnamon

4 luid ounces

Oil Nutmeg

2 fluid ounces

Oil Coriander

2 fluid ounces

Oil Petit Grain

1 fluid ounces

About 40 years ago, an industry handbook on flavors published the following
formulas for cola syrups and concentrates.

Ingredient

Quantity (grams)

COLA FLAVOR EMULSION

grams

Brominated vegetable oil

454

Gun acacia

340

Oil of cinnamon (Ceylon)

50

Oil of lemon

25

Oil of lime

10

Oil of orange

10

Oil of coriander

5

Water

2900 - to make one gallon

COLA SYRUP

milliliters

Sugar syrup (65&degree; Brix)

88 fluid ounces

COLA FLAVOR EMULSION

82.00

Phosphoric acid 85%

6.40

Caramel, acid proof

5.41

Salt solution

4.70

Citric acid solution

3.60

Water

to make one gallon

COLA FLAVOR CONCENTRATE

grams

COLA FLAVOR EMULSION

158.00

Phosphoric acid 85%

286.00

Lime extract

94.62

Caffeine

83.07

Solid extract Kola nuts

16.24

Vanilla extract

5.00

Water

to make one gallon

DIETETIC COLA SYRUP

milliliters

COLA FLAVOR CONCENTRATE

82.00

Caramel, acid proof

5.41

Citric acid solution

3.60

Lime oil extract

2.05

Saccharin, soluble

1.6 grams

Cyclamate

23.50 grams

Water

to make one gallon

COLA FLAVOR BASE

grams

Lemon oil - California, cold pressed

46.80

Orange oil

24.85

Lime oil, distilled

14.20

Cinnamon or cassia oil

10.65

Nutmeg oil

3.50

Neroli oil (optional)

0.01

Alcohol, 95%

11 fluid ounces

Water

5 fluid ounces

About 50 years ago, Coca-Cola published data about its cola soda formula.
Unlike the Pepsi formula from 50 years, other than vanilla, no mention is
made of the flavoring ingredients.

Ingredient

Quantity per gallonof Coca-Cola syrup

Quantity per gallonof diet Coca-Cola syrup

Water

4.4927 pounds(2037.85 grams)

8.0195 pounds(3637.58 grams)

Sugar

2.8267 pounds(1281.17 grams)

0

Fructose HFCS-55

2.9816 pounds(1352.43 grams)

0

Saccharin

0

8.944 grams

Caramel

91.11 grams

85.48

Caffeine

2.36 grams

3.15 grams

Cola Nut Extract

2.18 grams

0

Phosphoric Acid

12.20 grams

5.96 grams

Citric Acid

0

4.76 grams

Sodium Benzoate

0

4.79 grams

Sodium

0.94 grams

2.29 grams

Vanilla Extract

1.86 grams

1.13 grams

About 20 years ago, Pepsi published partial data about one formulation for
its diet cola sodas. Unlike 100 years ago, Pepsi this time doesn't provide
any detail of its flavorings. Data from the above table for diet Coke is
provided for comparison. Missing quantities from Pepsi's formula can be
roughly approximated using CocaCola's quantities.

Ingredient

Quantity per gallonof diet Pepsi syrup

Quantity per gallonof diet Coca-Cola syrup

Water

2000 grams

3637.58 grams

Saccharin

0

8.944 grams

Sucralose

10.56 grams

0

Caramel

amount not listed

85.48 grams

Caffeine

1.24 grams

3.15 grams

Phosphoric acid

5.50 grams

5.96 grams

Citric Acid

0.267 grams

4.760 grams

Potassium Citrate

4.070 grams

0

Sodium Benzoate

amount not listed

4.79 grams

Sodium

not listed

2.29 grams

Flavor Concentrate

22.22 milliliters(about 1gm/100ml)

amount not listed

A few years ago, a Chinese company published a formula for a cola soda flavor
for use in electronic cigarettes:

Ingredient

Quantity, in parts by weight

Alpha pinene

0.1 - 2.0

Beta pinene

0.1 - 2.0

Limonene

1.0 - 30.0

Sweet orange oil

1.0 - 10.0

Lemon oil

1.0 - 20.0

Myrcene

0.1 - 0.5

Cinnamic aldehyde

0.1 - 2.0

Cinnamon oil

0.1 - 5.0

Citral

0.1 - 10.0

Geranial

0.1 - 5.0

Geranyl acetate

1.0 - 10.0

Sisensal

0.1 - 5.0

Citronellol

1.0 - 10.0

Geranyl propionate

1.0 - 10.0

Eugenol allyguajacol

0.1 - 5.0

Ethyl maltol

0.1 - 2.0

Furanone

0.1 - 3.0

Raspberry ketone

0.1 - 5.0

Cinnamyl alcohol

1.0 - 25.0

Cinnamyl acetate

1.0 - 10.0

Vanillin

1.0 - 15.0

Ethyl vanillin

1.0 - 15.0

Coffee extract

0.1 - 2.0

Last, but not least, a few years ago, an American graduate student published
data on a chemical mixture that when mixed into a cola soda base, created a
soda that tasting panels agreed achieved the same taste as Coca-Cola soda.
This then is the equivalent of the "secret formula" in Coca-Cola's vaunted
vault in Atlanta. The subtlety of the following formulation can be understood
by one observation of the graduate student: if the four chemicals at the
bottom (methyleugenol, eugenol, (E)-isoeugeneol, (Z)-isoeugeneol), present
in very small quantities, are not included, people can taste the difference.